We have two unique and great opportunities within our Property Development Team for two Kitchen Design Managers, both on 12-month fixed term contracts. Here at Mitchells & Butlers, we are at the heart of hospitality. With over 1,600 sites we’re the home of some of the nation’s favourite restaurants, bustling bars, cosy country pubs and the local you didn’t know we owned. It’s been a tough eighteen months, but we’re not letting that stop us! Our investment programme is underway, and we have been working in the background to make sure we come back stronger than ever. If you’re as passionate about hospitality as we are, we want to hear from you!
Working in a mobile role, you will be required to travel nationwide, partnering with a wider internal Kitchen design team to design and deliver safe, ergonomic, and commercially sound kitchen designs for kitchens across our overall estate and across a variety of our brands. As Kitchen Design Manager, you will continuously and effectively provide and support our front-line teams with the opportunity to deliver the best guest experience in an environment they are proud to work in. Drawing on your professional experience, you will build and maintain successful key stakeholder relationships to enable the effective delivery of kitchen investments, be it through re-models, conversions, acquisitions, safety requirements or other company initiatives.
What’s in it for me?
· A Company Car
· Love eating out? You'll love it even more with a massive 33% discount across all our brands, so whether its date night at Miller & Carter or family roast at Toby Carvery we’ve got you covered.
· Flexible working – to fit around the other important things in life
· Annual Bonus Scheme – We’re all about rewarding the hard work everybody puts in
· Never a dull moment - fun, laughs and lifelong friends!
· Buy up to an extra 2 weeks holiday – life is for living after all!
On top of all this, we offer; a pension, 26 days paid holiday, high-street shopping discounts, an online wellbeing hub; and we even give you free shares!
What will I be doing?
· Designing best practice kitchen proposals based on brand module templates for each project based on brief following safe working practices, maximising design quality, capital cost effectiveness and kitchen workflow where applicable.
· Communicating with Operators, Building Development Managers, External Project Team to include external Catering Contractors and other key MAB stakeholders regarding kitchen projects by phone, email, virtual or face to face meetings.
· Ensuring all projects have standardised ways of working and delivered successfully for capital plan, profit driver and maintenance projects where applicable. Which is to include project briefing, design, quotation generation, drawing production, variance to template, design approval, installation, and hand overs. Feedback when necessary to Senior Kitchen Design Manager.
· Managing your diary effectively to attend project briefings, meetings, handovers, capital plan project review meetings with operators & Building Development Managers where appropriate.
· Supporting Catering equipment reuse/recycling programme by facilitating the equipment into the design & installation in projects and the coordination of returning redundant equipment fit for purpose back to the MAB store.
What do I need?
Just like our brands, our teams are diverse. You’ll need...
· Extensive experience in a comparable role, larger organisation experience highly desirable
· Comprehensive Kitchen Design & Ergonomics knowledge
· Proficient computer skills with CAD experience being advantageous
· Sound building and construction understanding
· High degree of maturity and self-motivation
· Strong drive for problem solving & continuous improvement
· Ability to influence and manage expectations at business and senior management level
· Previous kitchen management experience and/or pub and restaurant experience, highly desirable
Closing Date - Midnight, 14th October 2021
